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B. s. SMITH. METHOD OF MAKING GARMENT UATGHES. 7 No. 488,135. PatentedDec. 13, 1892.

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EDWARD S. SMITH, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE FROST,GEORGE H. PHELPS, AND GEORGE A. FROST, OF NEWTON, MASSA- CHUSETTS.

METHOD OF MAKING GARMENT-CATCHES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 488,135, dated December13, 1892.

Application filed June 6, 1891. Serial No. 395,372. (No specimens.)

T aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD S. SMITH, of Waterbury, county of New Haven,State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Methods of MakingGarment-Catches, of which the following description, in connection withthe accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters and figureson the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production in a novel method ofthat class of garment-catch having a somewhat V-shaped slot to engagethe materialand made of sheet metal. This class of catch to be effectivemust have the acting edges of the V-slot smooth, so as not to cut thefabric, and the best edge is one that is thickened and rounded.

Figure 1 represents a piece of sheet metal. Fig. 2 shows the samepunched through to form the body of the catch, and the dotted lineshowing the shape of the mouth to be subsequently cut; Figs. 3 to 6,different steps to be referred to in the description of my method ofmaking the catch.

The sheet metal CtlS first punched through, as at b, to form the body ofthe catch, and next it is placed in arecessed die and punched outcentrally on the dotted line, Fig. 2, to form the body 0, (shown in Fig.3,) having a contracted substantially-V-shapedmouthb. The

blank'c is next placed on a die-block having an opening a little largerthan the opening then in the catch, except as to the bar 2 of the catch;and a tool shaped substantially 5 like the mouth I), but Wider, ispushed into the said slot and made to overturn the inner edges of thecatch except at the bar 2, leaving the blank in the condition shown inFig. 4, where the same is shown in plan and 1on- 40 gitudinal and crosssection. This operation or step leaves a lip 3 extended entirely fromone side of the metal.

In the next step the lipped blank or body is preferably laid on an anvilhavingagroove of the shape of the lip, but of less depth, and in thiscondition a drop having a like groove is dropped on the blank, whichcauses a portion of the metal of the lip previously at but one side ofthe body of the blank to be so upset or carried back bodily beyond theother side of the body of the blank as to slide upon and be folded overagainst itself at that side to present a raised edge or flange 4, whichextends from each side the body of the catch, as in Fig. 5. This laststep finishes the acting edge of the-catch, so that it will not tear orcut the fabric or material it is designed to hold.

The next operation is one to close the width of the slot, whichisdirectly pinching the catch, so as to carry its side arms toward eachother, as from the condition shown in Fig. 5 to that shown in Fig. 6. Itis not absolutely essential that the lip 3 extend entirely about themouth b; but it will be so extended about all the narrower parts of theslot.

Having described my invention, what desire to claim by Letters Patent isThe herein-described method of making V- shaped loops forstocking-supporters, consisting in forcing a portion of the central partof the body of the catch through to one side thereof to form a lipWholly atone side of the body, then upsetting and swaging the said lipto form a bend, and thereafter carrying said bent portion bodily back toand upon the other side of the body of the catch, leaving a centralopening shaped substantially as shown and having a flange 4 extendedfrom both sides of the catch, substantially as described. In testimonywhereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD s. SMITH.-

Witness es:

GEO. E. TERRY, HELEN J. BIRKENMAYER.

